HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-01-03, Page 2NA IO FORESTS SUFFER ANALES
RUCTION TO PROVIDE' CHRISM TREES
rreeparable Waste Occasioned by Slaughter of 2,500,000
Young Fit Trees Shipped to the United iited States.
A despatch - from 'Marton, . Ont.,
nays: -Shipments', made just in tirne
for the Christmas markets in United
States cities brought, to a conclusion
for the season an industry which has
grown- to amazing proportions in this
province, but one which can be viewed
with anything but equanimity by
those who have the future well-being
of the forest lands of Onterio at
heart. This is the annual destruction
of fir and other young trees to pro-
vide Christmas trees for the homes
and institutions in the United States.
In recent years the New England
States supplied this demand and 'in
a smaller measure the Province of
Quebec, hitt the Washington Governe
Ment placed an embargo both upon
the cutting and the shipment of home
trees for this purpose, with the result
that dealers across the line turned
their eyes to the apparently illimit-
able supplies in Ontario, the consumer
willingly paying the extra charges
for freight necessitated by the longer.
haul to the American markets.
Each fall the buyers for the Am-
erican trader;eaeh the localities select-
-se by them and arrangements are
made for the annual "cut" which
usually begins early , in November.
This year it is computed that around
five thousand railway cars, each con-
taining on an average from five to six
hundred trees, have gone across the
border from Canada, the grand. total
of destruction being over two and a
half million of young trees. These are
nearly all cut below the first branch-
es on the trunk, the result being that
the stump dies and rots in the
ground. Of course, all engaged in the
business do not destroy the trees com-
pletely, but cut them above the first
branches, but while the tree thus
treated will not die; the limbs only,
will grow, and it will never be .of
mach commercial value after the
It -ink has been deformed.
Quite an agitation developed
amongst the Indians on the Cape
Croker reserve, on the Bruce Penin -
snick, early in the month, when in-
structions were received by Agent
Alex. Moore from the Dominion' Gov-
ernment forbidding further cutting of
trees on the reserve, and requiring
the collection of five cents on each
bundle from all that had already been
cut. The Indians wore very indignant
at the Government's action, as large
sums had been made by them previ-
ously in, this business, but the Agent
was firm in upholding his orders, and
no further depletion took place on
the reserve, The forbidding of this
destruction by the Indians did not, of
course,' apply to private lands, and the
activities of the American dealers
were transferred to these, and many
farmers and their help had several.
busy weeks in trying to catch up with
the demand:
Almost the entire output of .the
Bruce' Peninsula was for the Pitts -
THE, FORTUNES OF' THE HENDERSON FAMILY,
Arthur Henderson, the famous British Labor leader, photographed since
the British election, with his two sons. Mr. Henderson wag' defeated„ in his
race for parliamentary honors, but both his sons were elected. dr. Hender-
son,; Enfield, Middlesex, is seen at the lett, and at the right of the picture,
Arthur Henderson, Jr.. a
Pitts-
burg market alone, and
it is stated -five. railway that : twenty-five Y cars, FamousLands � of theMaritime
I an average : of six hundred trees to
each car, left Wiarton last monthfor
the city of Pittsburg, these costing the
dealer a total of about ten thousand
dollars. Many of the trees shipped
stood as high as fifteen feet, .and
would be retailed for as much . as
twenty dollars in the city mentioned.
The eastern side of the Bruce Pen-
insula .has scarcely any coniferous
trees, and those on the wooded west-
ern side are required for windbreaks.
A movement is atpresent on foot by
members of the County Council to ask
the Government to formulate a policy
to regulate this tree -destroying men-
ace in the future, and to insist on the
protection of the young timber and
the reforestation of the areas not fit
for cultivation. It is understood that
invitations are being sent to the Re-
forestation Department asking for a
representative to be sent to the Jan-
uary session of the County Council to
explain what steps the Government
are prepared to take in this matter.
SILVER JUBILLE OF
RADIUM DISCOVERY
French President Voices the
World's Gratitude to
Mme. Curie.
A despatch from Paris says: -In
a cold, draughty barn on a back street
of Paris twenty-five' years ago Pierre
and Marie Curie, poor and unknown,
discovered radium. To -day that event,
WWI ' commemorated in a grandiose'
celebration at the Sorbonne, with the:
President of the Republic and a dozen
other public dignitaries •participating,
and paying homage to the modest wo-
man scientist.
But Mme- Curie did not let those
who had gathered to honor her forget
how they had once neglected her. She
told of the barn that served as labor-
atory for her and her husband, of the
loose planks that let in wind and rain,
of the small cast iron stove that failed
to warm 'the place even when they
bad fuel. enough to feed it
Mme. Curio in an austere black
robe, spoke without any resentment,
however, ending thus:
"The discovery of radium was made
ander precarious conditions, and the
barn where it took place is now found
romantic. But to us these romantic
elements were not advantages. They
. used up our strength and delayed our
results. tinder better conditions we
might have reduced our first five
e years' work to two. This lesson should
not be lost for the future.".
Pierre Curie died in 1906 at the
age of sixty-four, after his head had
been crushed under the wheel of a
truck in a street accident.
Epidemic mie of Foot -and -Mouth
uth
p
Disease in England
A despatch from London says: -So
serious has, the epidemic of foot-and-
mouth . disease become that farmers
who own cattle in the affected districts
are themselves virtually under quar-
antine.- No social engagements or
other meetings are permitted and each
farmer is required to remain on his
own property.
The New German Chancellor
Dr Mari, who now controls the des,
inies of Germany,_ He' is a loader of
Cantor, or Catholic party,
Assnansmasums=aMmaszszsmnerams■
Gan Wipe Out Leprosy
Viscount Chelmsford, former Vice-
roy of India, in a circular sent out by
the British Empire Leprosy Relief
says that leprosy can be wiped out in
the British Empire in three decades
Hundreds are recovering from the die
ease under present curative methods
The Association is still in the process
of organization.
Jerusalem Surrendered
to a British Sergeant
A despatch from London says: -
How Jerusalem was captured by a
sergeant in the Second Battalion of
the Nineteenth London Regiment-
Frederick Hurcomb of Camden Town
-will be revealed for thee rst time
m
in the new war film "Armageddon,"
which deals exclusively with the fight-
ing in the East..
In telling of his adventure Hurcomb
said' that on'December 3, 1917, he was
sent out on patrol with twelve men
and a corporal with orders to go for-
ward until fired upon. They crawled
over Turkish trenches in the dark
without encountering anything, but at
dawn they spotted a house which the
sergeant approached. with a rifle in
hand.
To a woman at the window he
shouted "Banda up!"
But, she, -apparently an American,
replied with "Good morning," arid told
him the Turks had all gone.
Presently a party of about twenty,
ed by the chief man of the, town bear-
ing a white flag, approached, and in
broken English surrendered the city
to the sergeant.
Post. Cards, from North Pole
to Aid Amundsen Expedition
A despatch from New York says
The North Pole expedition of Captain
Reald Amundsen, 'discoverer, of the
South Pole, will take specially stamp-
ed postcards from ; Spitzbergen, its
"hopping' off place," with thealias to
take them to be cancelled "at the
North Pole," from where they will be
sent through regular nail distribution
agencies to all parts' of the world.
Proceeds from the cards will help de-
fray the expedition's expenses.
One of the most interesting as well
as one of the historic sights of the
Maritime Provinces -one that is also
a source of large revenue -is the dyke
lands, or what are known locally as
the hay marshes. These marsh lands
extend around the head of the Bay of
Fundy, in Cumberland, Colchester,
Hants, Kings and Annapolis counties
of Nova Scotia, and in Westmorland
and Albert counties of New Bruns -
'
wick. While the term marsh lands is
applied to these low lying areas, they
are far from rbeing what the name
implies. Looking at them from an
eminence they bear the appearance of
groat flat stretches of prairie lands or
meadows, covered with rich grass,
while almost as far as the eye can
reach innumerable hay -barns and hay-
stacks dot the landscape.
The marshes have been brought into
existence by the extraordinary power
of the tide of the Bay of Fundy.
where there is sometimes a difference
of sixty feet between the level of the
water at high and low tide. Large.
areas were therefore subjected to in-
undation at periods of high tide, The
early French settlers built dykes to
keep out the tide from these lands,'
and the areas thus reclaimed form a
vast natural meadow of approximate-
ly 50,000 acres in extent. This marsh-
land retains its fertility in a marvel-
lous way, producing hay crops averag-
ing from two to three tons per acre.
When'the soil appears to be deterior-
ating it is only necessary to open the
dykes, allow the tide to flood the land
again, close the dykes and resume
cropping the land. The periods when
it is necessary to open the dykesfor
renewal purposes are widely separat-
ed, some of those familiar with condi-
tions giving fifty years as the interval
between floodings.
The grasses which grow upon the
better partsof the dyked,Iands are
the English hay grasses, of a superior . h
quality. But one crop of hay per year
is taken off the land, but farmers' find o
in the marshes after haying excellent
forage for their cattle. No fertilizers
of any kind are used upon the marsh
land, and the only cultivation consists
in an occasional plowing, on an aver-
age once in ten or fifteen years, when
a single crop of oats is sown, followed
at once by grass.
An extensive market exists for the.
hay grown on the Bay of Fundy
marshes, and at good prices. Large
quantities are shipped to the West
Indies, Newfoundland, Boston and
other New England cities. During the
war enormous quantities were supplied
to Great Britain and .'ranee.
To the inland Canadian, unused to
the ocean tides, these dyked lands or
hay marshes present a fascinating ap-
pearance. Accustomed as they are to
but slight variations in the shore -line
of lakes and rivers; it is hard to realize
that but for the dykes these large
areas would at high tide be covered
with water. The value of the land,
however, was readily appreciated by;
the original settlers, many of whom in
their native lairds had been compelled
to battle against the encroachments of
the sea. How well these early settlers
did their work may be judged from
the fact that at various points the
original dykes' are still in existence,
after a period of close to two hundred
years.
These famous dyked lands aro to-
day, as in the past, a great asset to.
the provinces of Nova Scotia. and New
Brunswick, and as they continue, de -j
Cade after decade, to produce their hay
crops for home and export consump-'
tion, they bear testimony to the energy
of the people who in the early part, of
the eighteenth century fought and
won the battle with the sea for their
possession.
The Natural Resources Intelligence1
Service of the Department of the In-"
terior has issued very interesting`
andbooks on Nova Scotia and New;
Brunswick, copies of which may he
btained on request:
Weekly 'Market Re ort
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
$1.05'/:.
Manitoba oats -No 8 OW, 42%c;
No. 1 extra, feed, 41,4c,
Manitoba barley, -Nominal.
All the above, track, bay ports.
Ontario barley -61 to 68c. •
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 88%c.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 69 to 72c.
Ontario rye -No. 2, 72 to 74e.
Peas-Samplo,,31.50 to 31.55.
Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights,
tags included. Bran, per ton, $27,;
shorts, penton, $30; middlings, $36;
good feed flour, 32.05.
Ontario wheat -No. 2. white, 92 to
94e, outside.
Ontario, Ne. 2 white oats -38 to 40c.
Ontario corn -Nominal
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent. pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, 34.60; Toronto basis, 34.60, bulk
seaboard, $4,25.
Manitoba flour -1st pats., in jute
sacks $0.10 pee bbl.; 2nd pate., 3,60,
Hey -Extra No, 2' timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, $14.50 to .$15; No. 2,
314.50; No.:8, $12.50;,niixed, $12.
Straw -Car lots, per. ton, 39. t
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 28%c;.
twins, 28% to 24c; triplets, 24 to 25e;
Stiltons, 26' to 26c. Old, largo, 28 to
80c; twins, 29 to 81e; triplets, 30 to
82c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 44
to 45c; No. 1 creamery, 42 to 43c; No.
2, 40 to 41c.
Eggs -Extras, fresh, in cartons, 70
to 71c; extras, storage, in cartons, 45
to 47c; extras, 43 to 44c; firsts, 87 to
880; seconds, 29 to 800.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 4
lbs. enc over, 280, ch1dens,,8 to,4
lbs. 22c; hens, over 5r lbs,, 22c; do, 4
to 6 lbs., 15e; do 8 to 4 lbs. 15c;
roosters, 150; ducklings, over 6 lbs.,
19c; do 4 to 5 lbs., 180; turkeys,
young, i0 lbs. and up, 20c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
4 lbs. and over, 300; chiokons, 3 to 4
lbs., 25e; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 24o; do 3 to 4 lbs., 18e;
roosters, •18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
24c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs. and up, 27c; geese, 24c.,
Beans -Can, hand-picked,'ib.,: 7c;'
primes 61/4c.
Maple products -Syrup, p per imp.
gal., $2.50; per 5 gal. tin, 32.40 perj.
gal.; maple sugar. lb. 25c.
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 12c per ib,;
10-1b. tins, 11 to 12e; 5-1b. tins, 12 to t
18e; 21j2 -1b, tins, 13 to 14c; comb
honey, per doz., No. 1, 33.70 to 34;
No,, 2, $3.25 to. 33.50,
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 26 to
27c; cooked hams, 37 to 89c; smoked
rolls, 21 to 23c; cottage rolls, 22 "+.
24c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c; spe-
cial -brand breakfast bacon, 80' to 33c;
backs, boneless, 30 to 35c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs, and up, $1.6,50; lightweight
rolls, in barrels,,., $36; . heavyweight
rolls, $39. .
•
Lard -Pure tierces, 173 to 1Se;
tubs, 18 to 18%c; pails, 183 to los;.
prints, 20 to 20%c;,shortenin . pierces,
14% to 15Yee; tubs, 16 to 15r4c; pails,
I15% to 1Gc; prints, 17W, to 1Sc.
Heavy steers, choice, 33.50 to 37.25;
butcher steers, choice, e6 to $6.50; do,
good, 35.50 to 36; do, med:,. 34.25 to
$6.25; do, com., $3 to $4;' butcher heif-
era; ehcice,.$6 to $6.50; do, med. $4.25
to $5.25; do, Dom. $3 to $4.; butcher
cows, choice, $4 com.,
$4.25; do, med:,
.g3 to $4; canners and cutters, 31.25
to 32.50 butcher bulls, choice, $4 to
34,60; 'do, com., $2 to $3; feeding
steers, good, $5 to 35.50; do, fair, $4
to 34.75; stockers, good, $4 to $5; do,
fair, $2.60 to $4; milkers and spring-
ers, $80 to $110; calves choice, $10;50
to $12; do, med., $6 to $9.50; do, coni:,
$$4 to 5; do, grassers, 32.75 to4
lambs, choice, 310.50 to $11; do, bucks,
$8.50 to $9.50; do, com. $7.50 to $8.25;
shads, light ewes, - ooci $5 to 36; do,
fat, heavy, 34 to35• deo, culls,2 to
$2.50; hogs,, fed and watere$8 to
38.25; do, selects, $9:05.
MONTREAL.
Oats, No. 2 CW, 61 to'S1%c; N. 3
CW, 48%; extra No, 1 feed, 464C.
Flour, Man, spring wht te:,a,
$8.10; 2nde, $5.60; ,strongeaPabkerslets',
$5.40; winter pats., choice $5,55 to
35.65. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., 32.95.
Bran,$27.25. Sorts$30.25.
dling336.25. liloullie 40to 3 .
42
!rev, i`to. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to
310.
Cheese, finest westerns, 18 to 18%e; I,
finest easterns, 17',1, to 17%c. Butter,
No. 1 pasteurized, 41%c; No. 2
creamery, 40'¢ac. Eggs, fresh • spe-
cials, 80c; fresh extras, 60c; fresh
firsts, 45c• storage extras, 89 to 40e;
No. 1 stock, 84 to 85c.
Lambs, -fair to med., . $9.60 to $10;
hogs, $8.75 to $9 for thick smooths
and butcher hogs of good quality;
veal calves, $9 to $10; grassers, $3.25
0 38.75.
Malor H, f
A British officer, who was murdered
inNorthernIndia recently and whose
death has brought to a climax the staircase.
British Estates Transferred
by Impoverished Owners
A despatch from London says: -In-
come and other taxes . again have
proved virtually confiscatory in the
cases of Baron Glanusk and the Earl
of Lathom, both of whom have given
up their country seats. The former
has transferred his estates by ;deed of
gift to' his heir, Major the Hon. Wil-
fred Russell Bailey, who served in the
Grenadier Guards during the ` war,
winning the D.S.O. Lord-Lathom; who
has sold, 4,000 acres to Mr. A. Dellen -1
ham of London for about 1250,000, is
now 011 a world tour for hie health
with his widowed sister, Lady Bar -1
bare Ann Seymour, whose husband
was killed in the war.
Lord Glanusk, who is 69, moved to;
a little fishing cottage near his castle,'
Glanwye, two years ago, on Accountof
the expense of keeping his house at;
Glenusk park open. Lord Lathom's
property includes a Grecian bath and
state of British: resentment against the
- London Tower Will Endure weakness which so alarmed some of Amir of Afghanistan, who had under -
English Villager Worth More
Than Fifteen Millions
Another Thousand Years London's citizens now has been reme- taken to"suppz'e3ae •marauding
died and all the buildings which go to tribesmen. Britain may be forced, to
A despatch from London says:- make up the Tower are being minute- use. nelliiary measures to induce the
"London's Tower is falling down, fall. 1 examined for possible weak - spots Amir to fulfill treaty duties.
ing down," is the latest rhyme for .-- --_,. _
London children, due to a report which Britons to Fight .
has been going' around the last few g Plaits'
weeks that the historic citadel slowly Enemies With Ladybirds
is crumbling away.
But the authorities at the Tower A despatch from London says: -A
say that the reports "are very much huge army of ladybird beetles is be- A despatch from London says:
and hens1
exaggerated."The Tower of London, ing mobilized at Balham Even barn to wage war Y will soon have to
they declare, is safe for another thou- on plant parasites in all parts of Eng- punch time clocks if: an invention now
sand years, and stories of cracks in land.ext summer. Cantonments have being exhibited at a London poultry
the buildings and danger of early col- been erected on the estate of E. show finds favor with the farmers.
lapse should not be believed. Crabbe, fellow of the Entomological An ingenious Dutchman is suspecting
There are some gabled houses built Society, and 600,000 ladybirds are be -
New Device for Checking Up
Poultry Production
against the inner wall of the Tower
facing thewhich
Green'
have
broken
away from the Tower wall and begun
to lean forward, but experts insist
that these ancient houses never were
some of his hens of loafing on the job.
ing enlisted for the fray. They are He has accordingly' evolved a system
implacable enemies of the deadly aphis a phi by which, fitted on the back of each of
...
his chickens a leather th r
which attacks rambler roses, carne- a strap is attach -
tions and other flowers and plants and ed with a piece' colored chalk at the
are very pleased to eat the aphis on end.
Above the door of each trap nest he
places a paper and .a memorandum.
The door is so constructed that the
hen cannot enter the neat without
making a mark on the paper. As he
uses different colored chalk for each
chicken, he le now jubilant at, having
been able to rout the unproductivb
hens from his flock.
The inventor alleges he has not yet
discovered a way to register.' the
fraudulent entering of nests -that is,
the hen chalking up a mark, without
laying any eggs.
Destructive :Avalanches
Continue in Swiss Alps
4 despatch from Berne says: -The
series .of devastating avalanches in
the Alpine region is continuing. , A
number of :houses were swept away at;
Le Sepey, in the canton of Vaud. The
bodies of a pian and his wife who oc-
cupied one of c these dwellings were
found, enveloped in their bedclothes,;
500 feet away.
An avalanche carried` away a cot-
tagebetween Roseland and Beaufort,
thirty miles northeast ,of Chambery,
killing nine of the eleven occupants
of tho'dwelling.
The deep snow has blocked several
miles of the railroad' running into
a.aarnonix and, troops have been called
News, out to help in clearing the tracks. d
in danger of falling. Anyway, the all occasion&
DETERMINING WHAT THE GERMANS.SHALL PAY
-From the Birmingham
A despatch from London says: -
The' inhabitant, of the quiet little
Surrey village of }$shill have been
suddenly roused by the nSl.,.that one
of their late townsmen, who abs com-
monly.- reputed "comfortably off,»'sl ft
one of the largest fortunes in England j
This modest villager was Maurice
Marcus, who came to live at Redhill
a decade ago. He dwelt in a small
house in the outskirts of the settle-
ment, attracting no more -interest or
attention than many other old men in
the neighborhood. None suspected he
was the master of a fortune of more
than
13,000,000, 000
and
therefore ref
r ore
ono
of
the richest ten men in all England,
Marcus gained his . wealth in dia-
mond mining., and .other interests .in
South Africa. Ile was a great friend
of the Tate Cecil Rhodes.
i Natural Resources
Bulletin.'
The Natural "Resbnices, Intel-
11 ecce Service of the Depart'
m nt el the Interior at Ottawa'
/lieu in August last"the Am-
er•idan Instituto` -of �VIMing •and
Met llupgy visited Northern On -
'0 inspection wee made of
th ' er and gold mining,. areas;
TI .1'h
gold mines I-
,sof rho, Itecr
eke district proved: to be
ion to a greet many e±
:s, while one important
which the engineers .'
to observe was that.
rich deposits are
11 spot on the edge
SO
lath!';
a
the.
feat
wte��
thesree
merel!
of a ntry in whichthe
discovery of mines in multiplied
numbers Is an, ultimate cer-
tainty.
Thele men are schooled to
measure at _a glance, the .extent
of mineral wealth possibilities,
and from remarks made it is
cleat that the unanimous opin-
ion has been reached that the
mineral fields of Northern On-
tario are earmarked as like'y: to,
develop into possibly the 'richest
on earth. Net alone are the
proved mines the guide in reach-
ing this conclusion, but rather
is it the .enormous area of mil-
lions of acres of similar country
as yet untouched on which those
in search of opportunity are fix-
ing their gaze.
E. P. Mathewson, President
of the Institute, expressed the
opinion that, although the mhos:
of • Cobalt have produced close to
840,000,000 ounces of silver, yet;•
in his opinion, the field will con-
tinue to produce the metal in
important quard:Wee long after.
the present miners are dead.
This view is supported by the
outstanding success being
achieved in South Lorrain,
Hiding From Life.
We cannot evade the terms that life
itself imposes. The line ,of least .re=
sistance that we follow may twist like
a wounded snake, as we try to make
it lead us only through verdant meads
and flowery vales. But sooner or later
there are rocksin the pathway, harsh
angles to surmount, fierce resistances
that are not of our election, to be over-
come. Those who led easy lives, who
safely s reclined in the decision of
others, who were surroundec y shock -
absorbers, suddenly find. temselves
confronted by the : grim necessity of
taking the firm initiative. The for-
tune is dissipated like a summer cloud
and the wind of adversity blows chill
and ;keen. When the test comes, the
weaklings give up and go under; the
valorous summon a fortitude un-
dreamed, unguossed, and with a smile
confront whatever Fate may bring. It
is the rank coward that flinches from
the ordeal and seeks to run and hide
as from lions and dragons in the way,
or the black spread of Apollyon's
wings.
Nor can one fled a spot so sequester-
ed and secluded that the walking
figure of destiny will not followand
discover him where he cowers,
Francis Thompson in his glorious
poem imagined the "Hound of
Heaven" persistent on the trail;. and
from it one might take the image of
life itself, in ceaseless quest of those
who forever strive to hide from it,
They would tell yon that they are
not running away from life. On, the
contrary, they seek life; full and free.
and glorious. But their idea is that
life is a progress from one -delightful;
luxurious sensation to the next, and
e -minute it ceases to be fun they
sp; rn what it brings and seek a dif-
t
fere:, amnaement, ' Tlc them
the die iplino there is alin sotorrow ando#-
frustra n and loneliness, and you
are talkie a foreignlangaage. If hfe
is like, that; they tell you, they wish no
more of it hey must, at all, costs,
have "the ro and trite ra Mures".
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`�s 'stark
lessons, of• immitigabi �sin,
But they will never find/ll1,t "great
good ,.place" they imagine ,vn re
trouble never comes. Trouble was .ai
pointed that out.:af stresses.. and ten-
sions and torsions we migl1teequire
a character worth having, a character
that. willnot fall'• us in our need,. a
haracter that will enable us to serve
the race, and acquit ourselves like men,
under the.00mmandine. vision of God.
Greed Duke Nicholas of Russia
One of the greatest generals of the
late war,wllo is now 'atworkorganis-
ing a great army, tor: the restoration .
of -the monarchy in Russia. The funds
are to be raised by `monthly subscrip-
tions of small, suets from the Russian c
' refugees in many parts of the world. f
Tho refugees are numbered in mll- w
lions. , •d
c
:.t
In the Word's of the Woods.
A lumberjack with a broken leg was
taken to a hospital for tioatment., Af
'ter the ,leg had been Bet; 'the .nurse
'Plod him how the. accident 000urred.
He replied:
"You see; ma'ani,it was this way: I,
was skyhooting for the :Potlatch Lum-
ber Company and 1, liad: +only';one
ground mole, lie sent up a' big blue
butt and she was a heavy One. I` saw
her yaw' and yelled is him to give her
a St. Croix, instead of which le threw
5sag into her and 'gulled her, and' that
broke my leg r "
"Yes;' the nurse replied, "but T don't
xactly understand
"Neither do I, said'.the lumberjack.
The foal must have been crazy."
No man is a failure luttil.,he has lost
his cheerfulness, his optimistic out-
ook. :The;man who; does his.:best,and
arries a siulling`face and keeprecheer
05 in the midst of "diteouragements,
hen things: go wrong and the way la
ark anddoubeeel, is sure to. win, .•"
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